Food Companies Find a Way To Your Children Via the Internet

re: Food Companies Find a Way To Your Children Via the Internet

www.learningtreasures — Tue, 22 May 2007 16:53:55 GMT

As a homeschool mom of 7 I know how hard it can be to actually cook healthy meals in today's busy world. But it can be done! Young parents have been raised on boxed food and they don't know what else to do. Sad..

As for the internet - yep - I agree with the earlier poster - ours is in the middle of the living room and my kids, even the teens, spend very little time on it - an not time unsupervised!

We have to be responsible for our kids

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Luke Skywalker — Tue, 22 May 2007 11:34:21 GMT

Very interesting subject indeed.

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mmc88121 — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:47:44 GMT

We always had the computer in the living room, so we could monitor what our children were doing on-line. I also would go to the websites they visited to see what they were like. The free sites, that are aimed at children are very heavily subsidised by junk food advertisers. Most of them just assume you know that fact so they don't even bother mentioning it.

Mary

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re: Food Companies Find a Way To Your Children Via the Internet

Aaron_203 — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:39:36 GMT

Their are certainly a ton of similarities b/w the tv and the computer. They can both be used for so many good things but yet so many bad things too.

I really think that the key is moderation and supervision. So many times the tv or computer is used to "babysit" a child. Companies aren't stupid, they know this and use it to their advantage. It's just business.

We can blame pepsi, coke, wendy's or even big pharma all we want but truth be told it's up to us to actually make an effort and keep an eye on our children and what they are up too.

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Russ Bianchi — Mon, 21 May 2007 18:14:56 GMT

PBS succumbed to advertisers seeking to influence children's' programming, to hawk horrid prepackaged/processed garbage brands, after they dominated traditional Saturday morning network television cartoons, and then other children's' programming.

To their credit the Nickelodeon network does have an anti fast food and processed sugars campaign targeting kids.

Next came fast food, and sales with school team endorsement deals, and EVIL junk food and soda machines, bribing school districts seeking other revenue sources, and selling their souls to the Devil for it.

Now the internet, as reported by Dr. Mercola.

There remains but one way to curb, or eliminate, this bombardment on children; the parents MUST severely monitor any such messages, if not eliminate them.

By parents conducting themselves in such a responsible fashion, one is less likely to see the DAILY scenes in a supermarkets of the child throwing an irrational fit over not getting the brand they saw in the commercial, to the overwhelmed parent, who just wants to shut them up.

re: Food Companies Find a Way To Your Children Via the Internet

Alaskadude — Mon, 21 May 2007 17:38:19 GMT

Internet access or TV for that matter for children should be closely supervised by parents.
I certainly don't trust "them" to tell my kids what they should do/buy/think...